Resources

Resources

In this section, you can find a series of useful material.

The two more important documents at this stage of the process are

Advocacy Kit: this document is crucial for your work at the national and regional levels. The Advocacy Kit itself entails a list of Reference documents which you can obtain by clicking on the relevant hyperlinks. Find out more in Advocacy Kit 2005-2006...
2007 consolidated NGO submission: this document contains the NGO coalition response to the Draft Optional Protocol submitted by the Chairperson Rapporteur during the Fourth session of the working group. This document will assist you in assessing the most crucial topics under debate at this stage of the negotiations. Read more...

Moreover, you will find below different types of texts from various sources (UN, NGOs, experts). In addition to these texts, you will find links to websites which will provide you with further documents.

This material should help you to follow the debate and the process towards the adoption of the OP-ICESCR and provide support for your national, regional and international advocacy work.

Coalition for an OP-ICESCR

Advocacy Kit 2005-2006 Avocacy Kit 2005-2006 PDF

Written Submission of the NGO Coalition to the 2005 Open-Ended Working Group

Written Submission of the NGO Coalition to the 2006 Open-Ended Working Group

Written Submission of the NGO Coalition to the 2007 Open-Ended Working Group

Summary and perspectives after the OEWG session 2006

UN Open-Ended Working Group to consider options for the elaboration of an OP-ICESCR-Third session (06-17 february 2006)

First Report of the NGO Coalition about the OEWG session 2006

Second Report of the NGO Coalition about the OEWG session 2006

Third Report of the NGO Coalition about the OEWG session 2006

Fourth Report of the NGO Coalition about the OEWG session 2006

Informe espanol No1 de la Coalicion de las ONG sobre el Grupo de Trabajo 2006

Informe espanol No2 de la Coalicion de las ONG sobre el Grupo de Trabajo 2006

Informe espanol No3 de la Coalicion de las ONG sobre el Grupo de Trabajo 2006

Informe espanol No4 de la Coalicion de las ONG sobre el Grupo de Trabajo 2006

NGO statements - compilation (PDF)

UN Open-Ended Working Group to consider options for the elaboration of an OP-ICESCR- Fourth session (16-27 July 2007)

Draft Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Proyecto de Protocolo Facultativo del Pacto Internacional de Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales

Projet de Protocole Facultatif au Pacte International relatif aux Droits Economiques, Sociaux et Culturels

Written Submission of the NGO Coalition to the 2007 Open-Ended Working Group

UN documents

Report of the 2004 UN Open-Ended Working Group to consider options for an Optional Protocol

Report of the 2005 UN Open-Ended Working Group to consider options for an Optional Protocol

Report of the 2006 UN Open-Ended Working Group to consider options for an Optional Protocol

Elements Paper of the Chairperson Catarina de Albuquerque, presented at the 2006 session

Report of the 2007 UN Open-Ended Working Group on an OP to the ICESCR

Statement by the Committee on ESCR: An evaluation of the obligation to take steps to the “maximum of available resources” under an optional protocol to the Covenant

Expert articles

The right to be heard: The Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: What’s at stake? Autor Bruce Porter

La necesidad de adoptar un Protocolo Facultativo al Pacto Internacional de derechos económicos, sociales y culturales Autor : Magdalena Sepúlveda (PDF)

Events

Concluding obversations from the 2005 High Level Expert Seminar on the OP-ICESCR organised by the Government of France (advised by the International Commission of Jurists)

Report from the 2004 European Roundtable organised by the Government of Portugal and the International Commission of Jurists

Leuven Statement final document Expert Seminar 30 November 2001, Leuven – An Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

NGO documents

Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) – 50 Leading Cases on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights

COHRE – Adjudicating Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

ESCR-Net OP-ICESCR Resource Page

FIAN International – Optional Protocol Page

FIAN International – Justiciability of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Right to Food Journal

International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) ESCR Facts Sheets

International Commission of Jurists Legal Resource Centre - ESCR

International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW Asia Pacific) Optional Protocol resources website